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Fashion Statement at Milan fashion weekhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/04/fashion-statement-milan-fashion-week
For a unique take on the world of fashion, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/competition/2008/nov/03/fashion">sign up to the Guardian's fashion email</a> and get all the latest news delivered straight to your inbox<p><strong>What shall we wear to the Oscars?</strong></p><p>A touch of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/04/fashion-statement-milan-fashion-week">Continue reading...</a>FashionMilan fashion weekFashion weeksLife and styleMilan fashion week autumn/winter 2010Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:31:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/04/fashion-statement-milan-fashion-weekMatteo Bazzi/EPAVersace: perfect for the Oscars? Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPAAlberto Pellaschiar/APPolka-print at Dolce & Gabbana. Photograph: Alberto Pellaschiar/APMax Rossi/ReutersRoberto Cavalli's parade of pelts. Photograph: Max Rossi/ReutersAlberto Pellaschiar/APFurry mittens keep models warm at MaxMara. Photograph: Alberto Pellaschiar/APMatteo Bazzi/EPAVersace: perfect for the Oscars? Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPAJess Cartner-Morley2010-03-04T11:31:00ZThe new cool in Milan fashionhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/new-cool-milan-fashion
Milan fashion has always been about overt sexiness. Tight, bright and sparkly. But all that has changed, says Jess Cartner-Morley<p><em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2010/mar/01/milan-fashion-week-elegant-ending?picture=359889001">View a gallery of the best looks from Milan</a></em></p><p>Milan fashion week used to be so simple. It did sexy. Molto sexy. Revealing, attention-seeking frocks of the it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin, hormone-charging variety. Some seasons it was sexy-boho, sometimes it was fierce-sexy, sometimes it was Lolita-sexy, but – in the same way that Cherry Coke and Diet Coke are still Coca-Cola – the trends stayed true to the core brand. Sexy.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/new-cool-milan-fashion">Continue reading...</a>Milan fashion weekFashionItalyWorld newsLife and styleMilan fashion week autumn/winter 2010Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/new-cool-milan-fashionGIUSEPPE ARESU/APEmporio Armani on the catwalk in Milan fashion week. Photograph: GIUSEPPE ARESU/APGIUSEPPE ARESU/APEmporio Armani on the catwalk in Milan fashion week. Photograph: GIUSEPPE ARESU/APJess Cartner-Morley2010-03-01T21:00:01ZDolce &amp; Gabbana and Gucci lead Milan fashion week's fightbackhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/dolce-gabbana-gucci-milan-fashion-week
The Italian designers are ready to up their game to turn the city's fortunes around, reports Jess Cartner-Morley from Milan<p>As the last outfit exited the Dolce &amp; Gabbana catwalk in Milan yesterday, the cinema-sized screen of backstage images cut to a shot of the house seamstresses in their white coats, spectacles and tape measures strung around their necks, and the entire audience of 1,000 people burst into spontaneous applause.</p><p>It was the defining moment of a weekend when Milan fashion week, having found itself on the ropes, launched a supremely elegant comeback. A spat with Anna Wintour over a cut in the number of days she spends in the city has highlighted an underlying ebbing of influence from what was until recently the supremely powerful fashion capital. But this weekend, Milan has made it clear that the Italian designers are ready to up their game to turn the city's fortunes around.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/dolce-gabbana-gucci-milan-fashion-week">Continue reading...</a>Milan fashion weekFashion weeksFashionLife and styleDolce & GabbanaMilan fashion week autumn/winter 2010Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:34:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/01/dolce-gabbana-gucci-milan-fashion-weekMax Rossi/ReutersDolce & Gabbana: Elegance - and modern technology. Photograph: Max Rossi/ReutersMax Rossi/ReutersDolce and Gabbana: Elegance - and modern technology. Photograph: Max Rossi/ReutersJess Cartner-Morley in Milan2010-03-01T13:34:37ZMilan's shortened fashion week weathers Anna Wintour blowhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/26/milan-fashion-week-wintour-storm
Versace adds a defiant display to Italian fashion hit by media snubs, poor sales figures and a traffic wrangle<p>Milan fashion week may have hit a bumpy patch, but Donatella Versace is not one to be cowed. She will face this crisis the same way she has faced so many others: in tight leather trousers and very high heels.</p><p>Italian fashion is reeling from the simultaneous blows dealt by disappointing sales figures, an apparent snub by Anna Wintour and distinctly unglamorous wrangles over traffic policy, but on the Versace catwalk there were floor-length Oscar gowns, tiny party frocks studded with rhinestones, and lashings of backcombed blond hair. Business as usual, in other words. The London Fashion Week star, Christopher Kane, who designs the house's less expensive Versus line, said it reminded him of &quot;Barbarella, or the women from Russ Meyer's film Supervixens&quot;.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/26/milan-fashion-week-wintour-storm">Continue reading...</a>Milan fashion weekFashionItalyLife and styleWorld newsEuropeMilan fashion week autumn/winter 2010Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:44:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/26/milan-fashion-week-wintour-stormAlberto Pellaschiar/APA model wears a Prada creation at Milan fashion week, where the Italian city's status as a leading fashion capital is coming under scrutiny. Photograph: Alberto Pellaschiar/APAlberto Pellaschiar/APA model wears a Prada creation at Milan fashion week, where the Italian city's status as a leading fashion capital is coming under the scrutiny. Photograph: Alberto Pellaschiar/APJess Cartner-Morley2010-02-26T23:44:00ZPrada on the Milan catwalk: bows, frills and clicheshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/25/milan-fashion-week-fashion
Miuccia Prada's show feeds into the debate about how sexualisation of popular culture impacts on women's self-image<p>On the Prada catwalk last night, the dresses had black lace frills where other designers put breast pockets, the sweaters had a silhouette which would have made Jayne Mansfield blush, and shiny high heels were worn with cheerleader socks. Breasts, lingerie and knee socks: for blatant erotic content, this show was up there with the MTV classics of Britney Spears.</p><p>But this being Prada – the luxury label which invented geek-chic – it wasn't a sexy collection so much as a comment about what sexy means in 2010.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/25/milan-fashion-week-fashion">Continue reading...</a>Milan fashion weekFashionLife and styleWorld newsItalyEuropeMilan fashion week autumn/winter 2010Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:14:48 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/25/milan-fashion-week-fashionMatteo Bazzi/EPAA model presents a creation by Prada during the Milan Fashion Week. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPAChristophe Simon/AFP/Getty ImagesA model displays a creation as part of Prada's show show. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty ImagesJess Cartner-Morley in Milan2010-02-25T23:14:48Z